User talk:Guywk

Welcome!
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-- Sannse

Getting the show on the road
Hi Guy!

I've begun the process of converting this new wiki to the "Recipes" look and feel. It will still take a day or so to sort everything out (like having images transferring over seemlessly), be we are on our way. Cheers! — Game widow 13:45, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

Change name?
I am thinking we should change the name o the wiki to Dairy Free.

As lactose free does not mean dairy free - and some people are alerrgic to dairy and not just lactose intolerant.

The recipes here will be dairy free...

Now how to change it? —> you can't change the name of the wiki yourself, but i've submitted the request on your behalf. Update -- Done!

I cannot see anwhere to change a single thing. —> Try the Special pages

I cannot even find where to change the site logo... —> to change the logo, go to wiki.png  and click on "Upload a new version of this file" — Game widow 16:33, July 14, 2010 (UTC)
 * Good news! the name change is complete :) — Game widow 16:43, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

For the logo
Just in case, the best dimensions for wiki logos are 216px in width by 150px in height. — Game widow 17:34, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

Recipes wiki look and feel
This has also been done now, we are only waiting to be added to the "common image store" which would allow images on the main Recipes wiki to display here. — Game widow 17:36, July 14, 2010 (UTC)

Great thanks a lot - I hope that I am not disrupting to much of your work on the othr wikis....
 * Not at all ;) ... and you are now hooked up image-wise as well. So any images that do appear on the main recipes wiki that do not seem to be working here should only require that you put the recipe into edit mode and resave. I've also removed all the unused categories, so any new ones are entirely up to you. i'll probably keep an eye on things here for a little while yet, or until you tell me to mind my own business :). Let me know if you run into any problems. cheers! — Game widow 16:39, July 15, 2010 (UTC)

Favicon
Would you like a "favicon" for this wiki as well? right now you get the default W for wikia, but this too can be customized. It must be 16px x 16px and saved as "Favicon.ico" — Game widow 13:28, July 16, 2010 (UTC)